Drew,
The fasteners you are seeing don't hold nothin' on!
The "bracket pad" you are seeing is actually flat steel that is welded to
the frame and is threaded for the bolts.
So:
- remove bolts
- "offer up" sway bar with brackets
- replace bolts
- Go driving
This assumes your A-arms are already drilled for the sway bar
triangular-sttel-plate mounting brackets. If not, you'll have to drill
them or get new arms.
Ulix
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Andrew Griffith wrote:
> Happy New Year and all that rot,
>
> Well, I finally got a used factory 9/16 sway bar from Sportscar Parts in
> Arlington Texas (nice people) only had to pay $66 for everything including
> shipping... it even came with new brackets mounts and rubber bushings.
> Now that I bead blasted and painting it, it looks brand new.
>
> So, now I'm ready to install it and this is where I need some advice...
> How do I attach the bushing brackets to the square tubular frame?
> I can easily drill out the fasteners that hold what looks like bracket pads
> (already in place and the same size as the sway bar bushing brackets), but I
> can't get inside the frame to drop a bolt through. I don't want to drill
> both sides of the frame and use a real long bolt clear through the height
> the frame, for fear that it would collapse the square tubular frame.
> So what's everybody else done when they added a sway bar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Drew
> '62 Sprite
>
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